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October 2012

Ken Coates and Bill Morrison detail the uses and abuses of university; Michael Harris profiles Joseph Arvay, Canada’s best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Tom Jokinen goes inside the ranks of the new New Democrats; Stacey May Fowles on the hard-luck heroines of Canadian literature; fiction by Michael Crummey…

October 2012

Aristotle Got It

September 18, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Daniel Baird

The necessity of funding contemporary art, even if you don’t like it

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October 2012 / Politics

Editor’s Note

September 18, 2012April 14, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Whatever else it accomplished, the Occupy Movement, launched a year ago in New York’s Zuccotti Park, put income inequality on the agenda. The phrases “the 1 percent” and “the 99 …

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The Small Hours
Fiction / October 2012

The Small Hours

September 18, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Michael Crummey

He had his parents’ second car to get around the city, to ferry his father to and from appointments at the hospital, but he was staying at a boarding house …

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October 2012 / Society

Bar Stool Stories

September 11, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Linda Besner

An oral history of Mohawk ironworkers

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Books / October 2012

A Girl’s Life

September 11, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

Marjorie Celona’s coming of age novel, Y, tells a familiar story of female suffering

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Photograph by Christopher Wahl
October 2012 / Politics

What Would Tommy Douglas Think?

September 11, 2012July 22, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

New Democrats today promise to make your life better without subscribing to anything as old-fashioned as a system of beliefs. Inside the ranks of the party unfaithful

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